in other words, if ain't broke, don't fix it. just keep the guy that wrote it on retainer (or else he'll retire, then come back as a consultant for 5x the salary), and pay him explicitly to train the new guy.
or else don't buy generic stuff, but hire a -good- code monkey to go through and develop the new program, in parallel with the old (ie, staff dont see the new one til it's completely done, outside of occasional small group tests...with some classic A/B iterations)
lucky for me, there's some semi-famous skateboarder and a rocket scientist both with my exact name. appropriate diligence on my part (aliases, disposable emails, fake "information" for accounts that dont need it, etc), combined with their real personas, and I'm pretty well hidden myself. googling myself returns nothing.
People rarely think the economy is booming in the present tense. Even back then you'll find politicians and pundits bemoaning the "poor state of the economy".
um... Kennedy's speech: May 25, 1961 Appolo 11 Landing: July 20, 1969 Saturn design was begun in 1961. The best you can do is claim the engine itself (F-1), because one of the ways the Apollo / Saturn projects were so successful so quickly was they used a lot of off the shelf or existing tech to cut time. The F-1 engine that was the core of the Saturn V (note: not the earlier Saturn rockets) rocket was one example, with individual components being tested in 1957, and the complete engine being fired in 1959 (though the engine shared components with another design, and both were halted for some time before NASA picked up the tab). It was conceived originally because the Air Force wanted a really big rocket engine, not for any specific purpose, but because they were predicting a need for the technology even if they weren't quite sure for what yet (good forward thinking...develope the tech first, the mission will come later). It was only later after teh AF canceled the project, that NASA saw how such a rocket could be useful for extremely heavy lifters, rather than going the russian route of using a lot of smaller engines (example: N-1 used 30 small motors compared to Saturn V's 5 motors)
But even that was only 10, maybe 12 years. Not 20 years. And the final F-1s bore only superficial resemblence to the original prototypes, as they continually refined it with each Saturn V / Apollo launch. So the idea that it took 20 years to do the moonshot is fallacious. It took a bit over 8 years from publicly making it a national goal, to accomplishing it. The fact they used an existing motor design that someone had the foresight to conceive a few years prior matters not. Some of the other components were similarly off the shelf and probably as old or older, but that doesn't mean the program itself was that old or inherits that time as part of its own.
apple juiice >>>>> soda less sugar, no HFCS, less acidic, more elctrolytes. tastes better too. plus in this modern day and age of fortified foods, there are plenty of apple juices that have been made "healthier" than plain apple juice.
more from the article: "Everyone’s favorite oil-n-gas-grubbing, chemical cocktail-blasting extravaganza is officially a proud component of the No. 2 driver of sea-rising civilizational decline this side of the Atlantic--oil and gas production. The United States guv just deemed the act of hydraulic fracturing, or shooting tons of water and toxic chemicals and tiny granules of sand deep into the earth’s crust--along with oil drilling and processing and transporting both fossil fuels--the second-biggest contributor to global climate change in the nation."
How's that for objective journalism? Not to mention the multiple disagreements of subject structure (calling all grammar nazi's....feeding frenzy ahead!)
just adding technology does not make it better. just like adding the word digital or cyber doesnt make a toaster any better at heating bread. its what you actually do with it that counts, and for a large segment of educators, just adding fancy high tech gizmo #10 adds nothing of value to the course.
now i think you'll start seeing a higher uptake as the current professors retire and die off, and younger people take their place. they may make their presentations and lectures using and utilizing digital smart boards instead of chalkboards, and store them on tablet computers. but again, that doesnt mean the lecture is going to be any better.
the point of the lecture isnt to use or not a piece of technology. the point of the lecture is get Idea A into Student B's brain.
If you as the teacher can accomplish that using chalk, do it. If you as the teacher can accomplish that using a hologram, do it. If you as the teacher can accomplish that standing on your head and randomly yelling as your invisible dog, do it.
Why? -same amount of work done -spend 20% less on gas, or at least on getting to and from work -and 1 hour or more extra time at home per week (30 minute commute = 1 hr, or if you live in Atlanta and deal with the 2-3 hour commutes in horrible horrible traffic...6 hours or nearly a full work day worth of extra time at home) -3 day weekend, every week
if they have the password DB, then there's bigger issues at stake than the security of my password. like the company not taking the right steps to prevent intrusion. and there's nothing I can do about it; i could have hte PERFECT password, and it wouldnt matter, beucase they decoded it.
again: if they have the DB, then there's bigger problems.
he says that the shape slows down the speed of light, that is, that the EM waves (which travel at SOL) slow down due to the shape....http://emdrive.com/principle.html
hell, basic physics rules will show how you can treat the total "presented" surface area of the tapered side as equivalent to the large flat side, and so force imparted on two on teh same axis must be the same but opposite, negating each other. in short, he's talking about creating something from nothing.
shennanigans.
plus, if a major player like phantom works wont touch your miracle device, you know something is shady.
I'd be of the mind that it wasn't a bug, but intentional. But FB? They don't really need the page views....do they? Stock has taken a bit of a dip again since the graph thing came to light...though still high enough that I'm sitting pretty (bought when it was around 19.50 or so).
and since you asked: iphones sales to date: ~250million worldwide
Though the original poster was claiming ipads alone topped consoles, including all consoles nintendo ever made (which was the original point, in case you missed that)
as for ipods...those arent pc's. there is no way you can justify that one. ipad and iphone is already a stretch, but the same stretch consoles are, and why the guy needed a solid thumping.
I responded to his post and its follow ons directly and with a like manner Apparently Its ok to be a an apple fanboy and imply someone is a fool for thinking since ipads count for being a "top pc maker" so should consoles, and to use BS stats and snarky comments.
But to then prove them indelibly wrong, that's "trolling" and "flamebaiting". And I already know I have enemies on this place who will mod anything I say to hell, even if I made a working -insert miracle invention here-.
So that's Exhibit A in why slashdot mod points are a joke: Fanboys and Revenge.
You can keep it. The guy is still an idiot, and he is still wrong, in his presentation, and his attitude.
rofl. quite a few enemies (or apple fanboys) who want to mod me to flamebait hell.
only problem is, when their boy tried to say its ok for ipad to be a PC and counted as one, but not video games, and gave some bullshit stats to prove it, i proved him compeltely wrong.
but that's being a "troll" and "flamebait".
Exhibit A in why slashdot mod points are a joke: Fanboys and Revenge
And yet most of the european countries, even if they dont say it outright or exactly as we do, have similar legal precedent and culturally accepted mores of similar individual freedoms. Many of those countries apply and their citizens expect rights very similiar if not identical to those Americans do, even if not explicitly spelled out. Our own constitution almost didnt spell them out, but then some folks decided they didnt trust anyone in power to not abuse something not explicitly stated.
Oh, and, here....Finland Constitution, Section 12: Section 12 - Freedom of expression and right of access to information "Everyone has the freedom of expression. Freedom of expression entails the right to express, disseminate and receive information, opinions and other communications without prior prevention by anyone. More detailed provisions on the exercise of the freedom of expression are laid down by an Act. Provisions on restrictions relating to pictorial programmes that are necessary for the protection of children may be laid down by an Act. Documents and recordings in the possession of the authorities are public, unless their publication has for compelling reasons been specifically restricted by an Act. Everyone has the right of access to public documents and recordings"
iPad sales to date: 120.85million. iPad years on market: 2.833. Per year sales average: 42.66million. That's for all varieties of iPads.
Wiis sold to date: 102.44million
the uptake rate may be higher, but your attempted point, falls flat. You post was BS, you pulled numbers out of your ass.
in short: BOOM. Headshot. ----
addendum: quote: "I'm sure it wont make up that much volume" quote: "so waht? compare all time vs all time" Challenge accepted.
NES: 61.91 million SNES: 49.10 million N64: 32.9 million Gamecube: 21.74 million Original Gameboy series: 200.2 million Gameboy Advance: 81.51 million Nintendo DS (all models): 211.63 million --TOTAL: 761.43 million units (including Wii)
No, these are the same rumors we hear everytime a new console is coming. We heard it about the PS4 a few months ago. Hell, even heard it specualted about the next Wii.
Now about the new Xbox.
Same old, same old speculation. Nothing new to see here. Move along.
Fascism: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism "Fascists seek to unify their nation through a totalitarian state that seeks the mass mobilization of the national community through discipline, indoctrination, and physical training" Discipline? Physical training? Of the general population of the US? The most obese nation in the world? That's funny. Indoctrination? We can't even get people to agree on basic things like the age of the planet.
"It rejects standard bourgeois culture that it associates with unfit sedentary lifestyle, individualism, plutocracy, and the bourgeoisie's economic exploitation of the nation's proletariat, that fascism views as inconsistent with virile nationhood" So....rejects individualism. Rejects sedentary lifestyle (TV cultute). Rejects economic exploitation of the populace....this all sounds more like the standard slashdotter than the average US citizen.
There are many core principles and requirements to be considered fascist. Primarily, "everything for the nation", subjugation of the self to the nation. The nation doesnt serve to protect the individual (No individual rights), but the other way around, the individual exists to serve the nation.
Dictatorship: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictatorship Sorry dude. This one is self-explanatory, and when you got as many groups as we do all vying for special attention, as many politicians pandering to as many different special interests as we do, as many arguments over this and that as we do, there is no way you can say "dictatorship".
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in other words, if ain't broke, don't fix it. just keep the guy that wrote it on retainer (or else he'll retire, then come back as a consultant for 5x the salary), and pay him explicitly to train the new guy.
or else don't buy generic stuff, but hire a -good- code monkey to go through and develop the new program, in parallel with the old (ie, staff dont see the new one til it's completely done, outside of occasional small group tests...with some classic A/B iterations)
Very true.
lucky for me, there's some semi-famous skateboarder and a rocket scientist both with my exact name. appropriate diligence on my part (aliases, disposable emails, fake "information" for accounts that dont need it, etc), combined with their real personas, and I'm pretty well hidden myself. googling myself returns nothing.
People rarely think the economy is booming in the present tense. Even back then you'll find politicians and pundits bemoaning the "poor state of the economy".
um...
Kennedy's speech: May 25, 1961
Appolo 11 Landing: July 20, 1969
Saturn design was begun in 1961.
The best you can do is claim the engine itself (F-1), because one of the ways the Apollo / Saturn projects were so successful so quickly was they used a lot of off the shelf or existing tech to cut time. The F-1 engine that was the core of the Saturn V (note: not the earlier Saturn rockets) rocket was one example, with individual components being tested in 1957, and the complete engine being fired in 1959 (though the engine shared components with another design, and both were halted for some time before NASA picked up the tab). It was conceived originally because the Air Force wanted a really big rocket engine, not for any specific purpose, but because they were predicting a need for the technology even if they weren't quite sure for what yet (good forward thinking...develope the tech first, the mission will come later). It was only later after teh AF canceled the project, that NASA saw how such a rocket could be useful for extremely heavy lifters, rather than going the russian route of using a lot of smaller engines (example: N-1 used 30 small motors compared to Saturn V's 5 motors)
But even that was only 10, maybe 12 years. Not 20 years. And the final F-1s bore only superficial resemblence to the original prototypes, as they continually refined it with each Saturn V / Apollo launch. So the idea that it took 20 years to do the moonshot is fallacious. It took a bit over 8 years from publicly making it a national goal, to accomplishing it. The fact they used an existing motor design that someone had the foresight to conceive a few years prior matters not. Some of the other components were similarly off the shelf and probably as old or older, but that doesn't mean the program itself was that old or inherits that time as part of its own.
apple juiice >>>>> soda
less sugar, no HFCS, less acidic, more elctrolytes.
tastes better too.
plus in this modern day and age of fortified foods, there are plenty of apple juices that have been made "healthier" than plain apple juice.
more from the article: "Everyone’s favorite oil-n-gas-grubbing, chemical cocktail-blasting extravaganza is officially a proud component of the No. 2 driver of sea-rising civilizational decline this side of the Atlantic--oil and gas production. The United States guv just deemed the act of hydraulic fracturing, or shooting tons of water and toxic chemicals and tiny granules of sand deep into the earth’s crust--along with oil drilling and processing and transporting both fossil fuels--the second-biggest contributor to global climate change in the nation."
How's that for objective journalism?
Not to mention the multiple disagreements of subject structure (calling all grammar nazi's....feeding frenzy ahead!)
it's ok. the two sources used are the epitomy of unbiased and unsensationalized reporting.
just adding technology does not make it better.
just like adding the word digital or cyber doesnt make a toaster any better at heating bread.
its what you actually do with it that counts, and for a large segment of educators, just adding fancy high tech gizmo #10 adds nothing of value to the course.
now i think you'll start seeing a higher uptake as the current professors retire and die off, and younger people take their place. they may make their presentations and lectures using and utilizing digital smart boards instead of chalkboards, and store them on tablet computers. but again, that doesnt mean the lecture is going to be any better.
the point of the lecture isnt to use or not a piece of technology.
the point of the lecture is get Idea A into Student B's brain.
If you as the teacher can accomplish that using chalk, do it.
If you as the teacher can accomplish that using a hologram, do it.
If you as the teacher can accomplish that standing on your head and randomly yelling as your invisible dog, do it.
I'd rather work 4 10 hour days than 5x8.
Why?
-same amount of work done
-spend 20% less on gas, or at least on getting to and from work
-and 1 hour or more extra time at home per week (30 minute commute = 1 hr, or if you live in Atlanta and deal with the 2-3 hour commutes in horrible horrible traffic...6 hours or nearly a full work day worth of extra time at home)
-3 day weekend, every week
What special cultural signifigance does the first new moon of the year have?
if they have the password DB, then there's bigger issues at stake than the security of my password.
like the company not taking the right steps to prevent intrusion.
and there's nothing I can do about it; i could have hte PERFECT password, and it wouldnt matter, beucase they decoded it.
again: if they have the DB, then there's bigger problems.
true, but phantom works is a big player in these fields.
if they won't touch it or copy it, you know someone is playing shennanigans.
he says that the shape slows down the speed of light, that is, that the EM waves (which travel at SOL) slow down due to the shape....http://emdrive.com/principle.html
hell, basic physics rules will show how you can treat the total "presented" surface area of the tapered side as equivalent to the large flat side, and so force imparted on two on teh same axis must be the same but opposite, negating each other. in short, he's talking about creating something from nothing.
shennanigans.
plus, if a major player like phantom works wont touch your miracle device, you know something is shady.
never understood that, and never took physics to a high enough level to figure it out....how does a massless quasiparticle have momentum?
I'd be of the mind that it wasn't a bug, but intentional. But FB? They don't really need the page views....do they? Stock has taken a bit of a dip again since the graph thing came to light...though still high enough that I'm sitting pretty (bought when it was around 19.50 or so).
be careful. poke them too hard, like i did, and the apple fanboys will try to mod your facts into flamebait hell
and since you asked:
iphones sales to date: ~250million worldwide
Though the original poster was claiming ipads alone topped consoles, including all consoles nintendo ever made (which was the original point, in case you missed that)
as for ipods...those arent pc's. there is no way you can justify that one.
ipad and iphone is already a stretch, but the same stretch consoles are, and why the guy needed a solid thumping.
I responded to his post and its follow ons directly and with a like manner
Apparently Its ok to be a an apple fanboy and imply someone is a fool for thinking since ipads count for being a "top pc maker" so should consoles, and to use BS stats and snarky comments.
But to then prove them indelibly wrong, that's "trolling" and "flamebaiting". And I already know I have enemies on this place who will mod anything I say to hell, even if I made a working -insert miracle invention here-.
So that's Exhibit A in why slashdot mod points are a joke: Fanboys and Revenge.
You can keep it. The guy is still an idiot, and he is still wrong, in his presentation, and his attitude.
rofl. quite a few enemies (or apple fanboys) who want to mod me to flamebait hell.
only problem is, when their boy tried to say its ok for ipad to be a PC and counted as one, but not video games, and gave some bullshit stats to prove it, i proved him compeltely wrong.
but that's being a "troll" and "flamebait".
Exhibit A in why slashdot mod points are a joke: Fanboys and Revenge
And yet most of the european countries, even if they dont say it outright or exactly as we do, have similar legal precedent and culturally accepted mores of similar individual freedoms. Many of those countries apply and their citizens expect rights very similiar if not identical to those Americans do, even if not explicitly spelled out. Our own constitution almost didnt spell them out, but then some folks decided they didnt trust anyone in power to not abuse something not explicitly stated.
Oh, and, here....Finland Constitution, Section 12:
Section 12 - Freedom of expression and right of access to information
"Everyone has the freedom of expression. Freedom of expression entails the right to express, disseminate and receive
information, opinions and other communications without prior prevention by anyone. More detailed provisions on
the exercise of the freedom of expression are laid down by an Act. Provisions on restrictions relating to pictorial
programmes that are necessary for the protection of children may be laid down by an Act.
Documents and recordings in the possession of the authorities are public, unless their publication has for compelling
reasons been specifically restricted by an Act. Everyone has the right of access to public documents and recordings"
I have a hiking pack for my dog.
Doesn't make her a good pack mule.
She can barely carry enough water and food for herself.
More numbers, because I don't feel you've been humiliated enough yet for your stupid comments:
Playstation: 102.49 million
PSOne: 28.15 million[6]
PS2: 153.6 million
PS3: 70.2 million
--TOTAL: 354.44
Xbox: >24million as of 2006 (best figure I could find)
Xbox 360: 75.9 million
--TOTAL: >99.9 million
Citation needed.
Oh wait, you can't. Because you POOYA.
iPad sales to date: 120.85million.
iPad years on market: 2.833.
Per year sales average: 42.66million.
That's for all varieties of iPads.
Wiis sold to date: 102.44million
the uptake rate may be higher, but your attempted point, falls flat. You post was BS, you pulled numbers out of your ass.
in short: BOOM. Headshot.
----
addendum:
quote: "I'm sure it wont make up that much volume"
quote: "so waht? compare all time vs all time"
Challenge accepted.
NES: 61.91 million
SNES: 49.10 million
N64: 32.9 million
Gamecube: 21.74 million
Original Gameboy series: 200.2 million
Gameboy Advance: 81.51 million
Nintendo DS (all models): 211.63 million
--TOTAL: 761.43 million units (including Wii)
Ya... Game over ass. You lose.
No, these are the same rumors we hear everytime a new console is coming. We heard it about the PS4 a few months ago. Hell, even heard it specualted about the next Wii.
Now about the new Xbox.
Same old, same old speculation. Nothing new to see here. Move along.
Really? OK. I'll bite.
Fascism: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism
"Fascists seek to unify their nation through a totalitarian state that seeks the mass mobilization of the national community through discipline, indoctrination, and physical training" Discipline? Physical training? Of the general population of the US? The most obese nation in the world? That's funny. Indoctrination? We can't even get people to agree on basic things like the age of the planet.
"It rejects standard bourgeois culture that it associates with unfit sedentary lifestyle, individualism, plutocracy, and the bourgeoisie's economic exploitation of the nation's proletariat, that fascism views as inconsistent with virile nationhood" So....rejects individualism. Rejects sedentary lifestyle (TV cultute). Rejects economic exploitation of the populace....this all sounds more like the standard slashdotter than the average US citizen.
There are many core principles and requirements to be considered fascist. Primarily, "everything for the nation", subjugation of the self to the nation. The nation doesnt serve to protect the individual (No individual rights), but the other way around, the individual exists to serve the nation.
Dictatorship: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictatorship
Sorry dude. This one is self-explanatory, and when you got as many groups as we do all vying for special attention, as many politicians pandering to as many different special interests as we do, as many arguments over this and that as we do, there is no way you can say "dictatorship".
I need a new dictionary? Not hardly.
You, on the other hand, need to learn about hyperbole ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbole ), and prejudice ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prejudice ). Either your education has been lacking, or you a simply too biased to see straight.
Dumbass.